why are you so he enamored of fiscal cliff? >> i don't think that $3,500 hit to the average family is going to happen. think there will be a deal struck here, each side is going to have to give a little bit. my take on the fiscal cliff is the notion that is definitely in everybody's had affecting holiday spending but becoming its don't issue. we are blowing it up -- is like the debt ceiling talks we had last year. these all became issues because we made some issues. net net is no good long-term efeffects for the economy. gerri: you picked up something interesting out of ben bernanke at statement about banks being too tight with their lending. what did you make of that? >> it is very interesting because ben bernanke is talking about the unwillingness of banks to lend more noncredit were the people and the problem i have with that is banks are having to do that because ben bernanke has killed the bank model and if you look back at banks and how they make money they borrow on the short end meaning they borrow at the low end of int